Mindfulness for a Happy Life is a beautiful guide to what insight meditation really is. Robert's personable, funny, sweet, sad, and ultimately human and humane teachings are told in simple terms so that anybody, from the skeptic to the monk, can access the heart and truth of mindfulness practice.

If you have never meditated and can't understand why anyone would spend time on a cushion doing nothing, this is the book for you. You will find down-to-earth instructions that give you a direct experience of mindfulness as well as ways to measure the impact of your mindfulness practice. This book will inspire you to love life and to face everything that comes your way with grace, compassion, and wisdom.

If you have meditated all your life, but not found awakening, this book is for you. This book will demystify and clarify the teachings of Buddhism so that you can better understand your own process. You will find instructions and stories that will change your practice. Instructions, exercises, and stories are used to give you an experience that can shift your perspective and transform your practice so that you access happiness through insight.

Mindfulness for a Happy Life: New Teachings of an Old Tradition for Today's World, Robert Beatty with Laura Musikanski, Resource Publications, Paperback, 144 pages, $20.00

Robert Beatty is a member of the first wave of Theravada Buddhist teachers who brought Mindfulness from Asia in the 1970s. His life is devoted to helping others discover the profound ways Buddhist practices can transform one�s life, reduce suffering and create happiness. Robert founded the Portland Insight Meditation Community where he is the guiding teacher.

Laura Musikanski is executive director the Happiness Alliance (happycounts.org), a nonprofit providing tools and resources, such as the Happiness Index, to communities for taking action and joining the Happiness and Well-being Movement. She has been working there since 2010. Together with Beth Allgood, Laura authored the first community-based wildlife conservation wellbeing index, Proposing a Community-Based Wildlife Conservation Well-Being Instrument (doi 10.1007/s42413-020-00069-4). She also co-authored Bridging the Gap between the Sustainable Development Goals and Happiness Metrics (doi 10.1007/s42413-018-0012-2) and Assessing Community-Based Wildlife Conservation Programs with the Gross National Happiness Framework (doi 10.1007/s42413-019-00045-70), as well as several other books, including the first course books that connects personal happiness and societal change for a sustainable planet: Happiness, Well-Being and Sustainability: A Course in Systems Change and, Mindfulness for a Happy Life. She also served as the chair of IEEE 7010 IEEE Recommended Practice for Assessing the Impact of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems on Human Well-Being. Laura is a lawyer who holds an MBA and certificates in environmental management and law, her version of an education in sustainability before universities offered sustainability degrees